Henri de Triqueti

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Baron Henri Joseph François de Triqueti (born October 24, 1804 in Conflans-sur-Loing , Loiret department , † May 11, 1874 in Paris ) was a French painter and sculptor who was primarily active under the July monarchy . He can be assigned to the Romantics .

Life

Triqueti was born as a descendant of a Piedmontese family in Conflans-sur-Loing, where his father, Baron Michel Triquet de Triqueti (1748-1821), who had previously served the King of Sardinia as envoy at the Russian court, acquired the domain of Perthuis in 1787 would have.

He enjoyed his training with the painter Louis Hersent before he frequented the salons of the Parisian nobility in the 1840s. Together with his friend Ary Scheffer (1795–1858) and Delacroix (1798–1863), he belonged to the generation of romantic painters and sculptors who received commissions from Louis-Philippe , King of the French from 1830 to 1848. Through Ary Scheffer, art teacher of the princes and princesses of Orléans and friend of the heir to the throne Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Chartres he found access to the family of Orléans.

An ivory fawn by Baron de Triqueti, scan of a photo of a c1860 photo. Fawn probably in the collection of William & Emily Fane De Salis of Teffond Evias, Wiltshire and Dawley Court, Middlesex, both died 1896.

From 1831 the artist exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon . He established his fame with the bronze panels on the door wings of the Madeleine Church in Paris. After Ferdinand Philippe, the eldest son of the citizen king, fell victim to a traffic accident on the outskirts of Paris, he was commissioned to design the tomb and delivered a pieta for the Notre-Dame-de-la-Compassion (or St. Ferdinand ), which arose in place of the accident. He also created a design for the tomb of Napoléon I and stone reliefs for the Palais Bourbon .

Triqueti inherited the Perthuis domain in Conflans-sur-Loing from his father and the neighboring Changy domain from his brother Eugène de Triqueti, who died childless in 1866, which he had bought from Louis Desmazis in 1852. A few years later, on the occasion of his daughter's second marriage, he also acquired the “Manoir de Varennes” in Amilly.

Henri de Triqueti, who converted to Protestantism in 1847, died in his apartment at 65 rue d'Amsterdam in Paris in 1874 and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

He was married to Émilie Forster, the granddaughter of the British sculptor Thomas Banks, who gave birth to a daughter named Blanche († February 28, 1886 Paris).

Work (selection)

Sculptures:

  • ????: The ten commandments , relief panels in bronze with scenes from the Old Testament, (Paris, Madeleine church, door wing)
  • 1834: Arched reliefs in stone (Paris, Palais Bourbon)
  • 1840:? Tomb of Emperor Napoléon, unexecuted draft (Montargis, Musée Girodet)
  • 1842:? Tomb of Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Chartres (Paris, Chapel of St. Ferdinand). Several portrait busts were made after the reclining grave figure (Paris, Louvre; Montargis , Musée Girodet)
  • 1842:? Pieta, (Paris, Chapel of St. Ferdinand)
  • ????: Crucifix (Paris, Invalidenheim , St. Louis des Invalides )
  • ????: Crucifixion group (Montargis, Musée Girodet)
  • ????: The death of Monseigneur Affre , (Montargis, Musée Girodet)
  • ????: Christ of the good death ( Le Christ de la bonne mort , Montargis, Musée Girodet)
  • 1863: Design for the tomb of Albert von Sachsen-Coburg (Montargis, Musée Girodet)
  • 1863: until 1865? Reliefs ( London , University College)

Drawings:

Furniture:

  • former library Durzy (Montargis, Musée Girodet)

Bernard Ceysson considered the bronze panels on the doors of the Madeleine Church to be one of the most important contributions to religious sculpture of the 19th century. They illustrate "The Ten Commandments". Triqueti was modeled on a famous work from the Italian Renaissance : the doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence , but at the same time he showed a remarkable mastery of the relief . In this depiction he succeeded in working out the subject of the curse under which sinners stand in the spirit of the romantic era.

The tomb of Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans was a joint work by Henri de Triqueti and Ary Scheffer. Triqueti created the grave figure of the duke, after which several portrait busts were made at the request of Queen Marie-Amélie . Based on an idea by Ary Scheffer, the work "L'Ange de la Miséricorde" (The Angel of Mercy) by Marie d'Orléans, the Duke's deceased sister, who had been Scheffer's pupil, was integrated into the composition of the tomb.

The largest collection of Triqueti's works, including the workshop inventory, is in the "Musée Girodet" in Montargis . Among other things, there are plaster and clay designs for the door wings of the Madeleine Church, the unexecuted design of Napoléon's tomb for the home for the disabled, the plaster originals for the tombs of Ferdinand d'Orléans (1842) and Albert von Saxe-Coburg (1863).

Awards

literature

  • Stanislas Lami : Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dix-neuvième siècle. Volume 4: N-Z. H. Champion, Paris 1921, pp. 318-324 (French, gallica.bnf.fr ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the State Archives, born in 1807 archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr
  2. ↑ 1831, 1833, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1842, 1847, 1855, 1857 and 1861
  3. ↑ The chapel was moved a few meters when the Boulevard Périphérique was built .
  4. ↑ Bernard Ceysson, Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, François Souchal: La Grande Tradition de la Sculpture du XVe au XVIIe siècle. Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8228-6974-0 , p. 323.
personal data
SURNAME Triqueti, Henri de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Triqueti, Henri Joseph François de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Conflans-sur-Loing , Loiret, France
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1874
Place of death Paris